It’s the 1930s. Lewis Eliot is teaching in a Cambridge College when an election is called for a new Master.

CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.

Stars Adam Godley and David Haig.

Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Narrator …. David Haig
Lewis Eliot …. Adam Godley
Francis Getliffe .... Andy Taylor
Winslow …. Clive Merrison
Brown .... Philip Franks
Calvert .... Adam Levy
Jago .... David Calder
Nightingale …. Jeremy Child
Chrystal …. Matthew Marsh
Crawford .... Hugh Quarshie
Mrs Jago .... Joanna Monroe
Sir Horace Timberlake .... Ian Hogg

Director: Jeremy Howe & Sally Avens.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. Show less